The consumption is the point. They just want candy not a meal. They want fucking marvelslop not Cinema.
Inb4 let people enjoy things, the mindset on display is a perfect member of capitalist society. A mindless consumption machine.
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When is the “let people enjoy things” struggle session?
But tbf, I understand where the criticism comes from if you have a deep belief that media partially shapes reality
partially, being the key word. I’m not going to die on the hill that marvel brain is accelerating our decline into fascism.
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Because the good guys always win in the end, they’ll die on that hill, not me. Spielberg told me so
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I just want to hear the dulcet tones of my gullet stretching to fit even more slop down at once
feel like people value their criticism of media as though it is any less slop than the media itself. unless the criticism actually matters in some way - criticizing sexist tropes, the CIA being the good guys, working conditions of animation studios, or just the overt politics being espoused by the media - i don't really care whether someone else thinks the cinematography is fancy enough. the acting is unnatural? i'm autistic as shit, i act unnatural. a lot of this is really is just malding that other people do not value the same things in media, which gets sillier when its asceibed to some immaterial lack of fulfillment as though the only way to be fulfilled is to be obnoxious about movies.
i have never watched an MCU movie. i have watched every niel breen film. the latter is a favorite because i enjoy it explicitly as a social activity.
but yeah i also am generally critical of dunk culture as it seems to just further alienate people and i don't see how this mindset doesn't just further alienate someone from these lower-than-pigs subanimals that watch popular movies. and so i too get mired in the pointless dunks on people as we all get emotionally exhausted.